keensali
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I have done a pile of searching. Yes, there is never ending information on the P0300 code, but I was not able to find much on the P0351. Allow me to expand....
Truck seemed to lack some power for a while. Still got going fine, but not as snappy as I remember. I have had a string of issues with it unrelated to engine stuff. While heading home one day, had to go up a 2 mile steep hill. It really didn't want to get going and had to have it "kicked down" for the whole hill. Got over the top and soon after I started noticing what I describe as a miss in the engine. Ran rough.
Continued howeward, got to within 3 miles of home and it was running really ruff and the check engine light started flashing. Gimped it home and left it running to go and grab my OBDII reader. By the time I came back from the garage, the truck was idling better and the light was off.
Still hooked the reader up and got P0351 in Pending Codes. Display shows "Ignition Coil A Primary/Secondary Circuit Malfunction". Did some reading and figured it may be the coil on #1. If I read right, sitting in the drivers seat, #1 should be the closest cylinder to the rad/front end on the drivers side. So I swapped the coil with the one directly across the engine on the passenger side. Cleared the codes and ran the truck again. Came up with P0351 again. So swapped plug wires as well, same code again.
At this point, I figured it could be the plug. Off I went and put in new plugs(NGK TR55 #3951 gapped to 50). Old Denso plugs all looked very good.Cleared the codes and ran it again. P0351 and P0300.
Guess I am stumped by the P0351. Either I have targeted the wrong cylinder to trade coils or there is a logical issue that my simple brain is missing.
As a side note, the truck did not run much for a 3 week period due to the sunroof glass BLOWING OFF!!! So I had to park it under a cover and am still working on the sunroof repair. I put some fuel treatment/injection cleaner in the tank and have gone around the block here hoping to run some of that fuel to the front in case the old stuff was a bit stale.
Fire away at me with ideas. I understand the converter(s) could be plugged, but wonder if that could flag a coil code....
Truck seemed to lack some power for a while. Still got going fine, but not as snappy as I remember. I have had a string of issues with it unrelated to engine stuff. While heading home one day, had to go up a 2 mile steep hill. It really didn't want to get going and had to have it "kicked down" for the whole hill. Got over the top and soon after I started noticing what I describe as a miss in the engine. Ran rough.
Continued howeward, got to within 3 miles of home and it was running really ruff and the check engine light started flashing. Gimped it home and left it running to go and grab my OBDII reader. By the time I came back from the garage, the truck was idling better and the light was off.
Still hooked the reader up and got P0351 in Pending Codes. Display shows "Ignition Coil A Primary/Secondary Circuit Malfunction". Did some reading and figured it may be the coil on #1. If I read right, sitting in the drivers seat, #1 should be the closest cylinder to the rad/front end on the drivers side. So I swapped the coil with the one directly across the engine on the passenger side. Cleared the codes and ran the truck again. Came up with P0351 again. So swapped plug wires as well, same code again.
At this point, I figured it could be the plug. Off I went and put in new plugs(NGK TR55 #3951 gapped to 50). Old Denso plugs all looked very good.Cleared the codes and ran it again. P0351 and P0300.
Guess I am stumped by the P0351. Either I have targeted the wrong cylinder to trade coils or there is a logical issue that my simple brain is missing.
As a side note, the truck did not run much for a 3 week period due to the sunroof glass BLOWING OFF!!! So I had to park it under a cover and am still working on the sunroof repair. I put some fuel treatment/injection cleaner in the tank and have gone around the block here hoping to run some of that fuel to the front in case the old stuff was a bit stale.
Fire away at me with ideas. I understand the converter(s) could be plugged, but wonder if that could flag a coil code....